Posts Tagged china

At IAA 2015, Continental will introduce new compact drivetrains for electric vehicles tailor-made for the Chinese market. Those are 60-120 kW drivetrains with motor, transmission and power electronics in one housing. Carmakers will be able to choose motors from asynchronous or permanent-magnet synchronous machine. According to Continental, integrated drive unit brings cost…

According to the ChinaAutoWeb, Chinese manufacturers produced some 76,233 NEVs (New Energy Vehicles) by the end of June, and sold nearly as many (72,711, up 240% year-over-year). Around 25,000 were produced in June, which is a pretty strong surge. Numbers includes different vehicles, out of which passenger cars had 50,627…

Youxia Motors appears from stealth mode in China by unveiling its sort of sweet-looking Youxia X all-electric car. It’s of course modeled after the Tesla Model S, although according to Chinese media Youxia X is targeted at the Tesla Model 3 area. Youxia Motors is led by 28-year old Huang…

BYD Qin plug-in hybrid was at the end of May the fourth best selling plug-in model worldwide, according to the EV Sales Blog. But the sales surge this year is so strong that by the end of this year Qin could be #1. After less than 2,000 sales a month…

After just the first six months of 2015, production of New Energy Vehicles (electric and plug-in hybrids) in China already reached the level of the whole year 2014. We are talking about 78,500 NEVs produced and China is still revving up! Solely in June, 25,000 NEVs were produced! Gasgoo.com, citing…

Volkswagen announced cooperation agreement in the area of e-mobility research with Chinese joint venture partner SAIC. The German-Chinese joint venture, Shanghai Volkswagen (SVW), will expand its main plant in Anting to accommodate production of new electric and plug-in hybrid models, which localization will be implemented gradually. In total, 15 plug-in…

China’s largest telecommunications equipment company ZTE Corporation is working on high-power wireless charging. According to Green Car Congress, ZTE’s inductive charging WPT module can deliver up to 30 kW of power. “At a China-US workshop on electric vehicle standardization held in June (earlier post), Academus Tian, VP of ZTE New…

Research and Markets has announced the release of its “China Electric Vehicle Charging Station and Charging Pile Report 2015-2016.” The report contains some information on China’s current public charging infrastructure, as well as some forward-looking predictions. Here is the breakdown: In 2010-2014, the number of Chinese charging stations jumped from…

Korea Herald reports: “LG Chem is strengthening its footing in China, the world’s largest electric car market, with its latest battery deal with Great Wall Motor, the country’s No. 1 manufacturer of sports utility vehicles.” LG Chem signed a deal to supply lithium-ion batteries to Great Wall for the…

Turns out that battery swapping is reality in China. Check out this battery swap site outside of Suzhou, China, a city west of Shanghai. The uploader of the image tells us that the swapping process is not as easy as with the Tesla Model S, but says the whole process…

Lux Research in its report on battery market outlook sees a bright future for lithium-ion batteries in China. Forecasted growth by 2025 will quadruple revenues from $1.7 billion to $8.7 billion, while the energy in GWh will grow six times from about 5 GWh to some 31.3 GWh. If we…

LG Chem collected two more Chinese companies who would like to use lithium-ion batteries in their electric vehicles. The new agreement opens a new area of electric buses for LG Chem, as the Korean company mostly supplied carmakers. Nanjing Golden Dragon Bus and Dongfeng Commercial Vehicle intend to produce large-…

National Electric Vehicle Sweden, who is trying to resurrect SAAB and begin production of electric cars, celebrated a ground breaking ceremony for production and R&D in Tianjin, China. That’s interesting because just 9-months ago they were struggling, laying off workers. But after the reorganization and finding two new strategic investors…